Joanne Preston

Joanne Preston is an architectural and urban designer and architectural historian from the North of England. She is currently based in London where she has worked for a number of architecture practices on social housing and strategic visioning projects for public sector clients. Her academic research draws on her own working class heritage to explore and translate the relationship between place and social inequalities. Joanne has just joined the local authority planning team for Cambridgeshire through Public Practice, a social enterprise that places outstanding urban designers, architects and other built environment specialists in strategic public sector roles, to influence upstream the decisions that shape public space and housing delivery.